Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-16
nersbility my principle Is invisibility Of

nerability my principle Is invisibility Of
defences. When you erect enormous for
tiications you offer target for the enc
my's shot. Let your turrets aud cupolas
be ever so thick the heavy shot is likely
| to play mischief with their mechanism.
With your distinguished countrymsn,
Lieut.. Maxima, have worked out what
call a disappearing gun system
which can be applied to the
heaviest guns made. This renders
| Notifications unnecessary. The gun
occupies hole in the ground. When in
action it is released by sort of hydraulic
elevator, and after firing sinks to the pit
again to be reloaded. Thus it is exposed
for only few seconds. When in the pit
it can only be hit by avert'cal or plough
ing fire, and the likelihood of such shots
striking their mark is infinitely small.
Covered ways shelter the men who load
the gun so that the enemy
has practically nothing to aim
at. A gun operated in this fashion
commands much wider area
than when mounted in fort.
By means Of electricity gun
can be raised, lowered, trained and dis
charged by one man in q position of safety
one hundred var or even mile away.
This has been actually accomplished.
We are at work on a plan whereby the
machinery for loading q gun can also
be operated by electricity. If this is sue
cessful gun can be wholly
worked from safe distance. When
you can dispense with Notifications
you have more money for heavy guns,
submarine mines and torpedoes. Here
tofore have veheme ntly urged the col
ony of Victoria, Australia, to build no
more forts. | believe such costly de-
lenses will soor be regarded as obsolete.
In defensive warfare the United States
derives great advantages from her dis
lance from Europe, because OF the diff. |
Guilty of using tirst-class iron-clads so
far from their bases of supplies is very |
great.
RUSSIA ON BULGARIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10 1t is an
nounced in semi-otlicial circles that Rus
STA, having been solicited by the powers
to name candidate for the Bulgarian
throne, has designated Prince Nicholas Of
Mingrelia. Austria stated that any can
didate would be acceptable to her proYid-
ed he was not the Montenegrin prince.
Tse reception of the nomination of Prince
Nicholas has convinced RussiG that pre-
conceived disposition existed to reject
more because the nomination was adj
vanced By Russia than from any
obj ctiOn TO Prince Nicholas per-
sonallv. Any other candidate paronized
by Russia would encounter the same diff
lculty, hence Russia is not disposed to
choose another candidate, though Europe
might possibly accept him. Russia de
'ires that before the cand,dature of
Prince Nicholas be denied the regents and
heir supporters withdraw opposition to
him, that he may be fairly presented to
he Bulgarian people, who shall be 81 1
owed to freely decide whether they will {
Iccept him or not Russia will not CON-
ider the question of presenting the name
II another candidate until the Bulgarians
eject Prince Nicholas under the condi- .
ions mentioned above.
PURCHASING WAR MATERIALS.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE government :
as decided to purchase 10000 additional 7
orses and 5OO 900 MannlIcher rapeat-
ng rifles to be ready March |. Z